This weekly digest contains a lot of interesting and inspiring articles, videos, tweets, and designs I consumed during this week.
Interesting articles to read
Boost Your Programming Skills by Reading Git's Code
In this article, we discuss the original version of Git's code to highlight how reading code can boost your coding skills. We cover the reasons to learn about Git's code and how to access it. We discuss Git's original codebase structure and how Git's core functionalities are implemented in code.
Building a ‘Table Of Contents’ with active indicator using JavaScript Intersection Observers
The JavaScript Intersection Observer is built into all modern browsers and lets you avoid scroll listeners. In this post we re-factor a the JavaScript that creates a table of contents for a blog post and updates the current indicator depending upon whether it is in view or not.
Welcome to Chapter 4 of The Nature of Code: Particle Systems! I begin by coding a simple particle system in p5.js. I convert the Mover class into a Particle class, add a lifetime property and organize a collection of particles into an array
Using the axe Web Accessibility Testing Browser Plugin
I'm joined by Preety Kumar of Deque to take a look at their DevTools plugin for axe. Short story: this is an amazing plugin that helps you quickly find accessibility problems on any website, then help you fix them. There is quick automated testing as well as guided tests that help you test things that need a little bit more walkthrough, like testing the page tab order and testing modal dialogs.
How I Optimized My JavaScript Project (Complete Walkthrough) | Faster Spatial Hash Grids
In this project, we're doing some JavaScript optimization. We're continuing and building on that JavaScript spatial hash grid implementation, but we'll be examining it in detail with Chrome's DevTools profiler, looking for hotspots and optimization opportunities. I'll take you step by step through the process, benchmarking the code, examining the profile, and ultimately making the existing implementation dramatically faster.
System design is a very broad topic. Even a software engineer with many years of working experience at a top IT company may not be an expert on system design. If you want to become an expert, you need to read many books, articles, and solve real large scale system design problems.
How to prepare system design questions for an IT company
System design is a very broad topic. Even a software engineer with many years of working experience at a top IT company may not be an expert on system design. If you want to become an expert, you need to read many books, articles, and solve real large scale system design problems.
This repository only teaches you how to handle the system design interview with a systematic approach in a short time. You can dive into each topic if you have time. Of course, welcome to add your thoughts!
Improve the quality of your API descriptions, Kubernetes config, GitHub Actions, or any other JSON/YAML data. Get automatic validation & linting warnings, powered by Spectral, when you use Stoplight.
A flexible JSON/YAML linter for creating automated style guides, with baked in support for OpenAPI v2 & v3.
Custom Rulesets: Create custom rules to lint JSON or YAML objects
Ready-to-use Rulesets: Validate and lint OpenAPI v2 & v3 and AsyncAPI Documents
JSON Path Support: Use JSON path to apply rules to specific parts of your objects
Ready-to-use Functions: Built-in set of functions to help create custom rules. Functions include pattern checks, parameter checks, alphabetical ordering, a specified number of characters, provided keys are present in an object, etc.
Custom Functions: Create custom functions for advanced use cases
Look at the console to see the Local URL. Open it in your browser to see it in action.
Contributing
Pull requests are welcomed. To submit your favorite tip, please create a markdown file, and put it in the posts folder
The content of markdown file has to look like
---
title: ___
category: ___
date: ___
tags
- posts
layout: layouts/post.njk
topics: ___
---
The content of post
